{"id":692563,"date":"2026-06-09T00:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692563\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:46:13","slug":"records-show-ai-failed-to-detect-nurse-stealing-fentanyl-should-humans-oversee-the-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692563\/","title":{"rendered":"Records show AI failed to detect nurse stealing fentanyl, should humans oversee the tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 State records show Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga <a href=\"https:\/\/newschannel9.com\/news\/local\/state-records-ai-system-missed-5-fentanyl-diversion-warnings-tied-to-chattanooga-nurse-erlanger-tennessee-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fired a nurse for stealing drugs<\/a> and artificial intelligence didn&#8217;t pick up on the warning signs, our sister station WTVC reports. <\/p>\n<p>That nurse is John Stevenson, who admitted to investigators he had been stealing leftover fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors at John&#8217;s Hopkins Hospital tell WTVC they have humans overseeing similar technology, but that isn&#8217;t a law.<\/p>\n<p>FOX 17 News&#8217; Johnny Maffei reached out to the Tennessee Department of Health and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.&#8217;s Office to see if they will look into changing this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (5)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/patients-losing-patience-ai-can-streamline-healthcare-but-to-what-extent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Doctors tell FOX 17 News <\/a>AI can be a good to to help healthcare providers, but as an assistant, and humans should be making final decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 State records show Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga fired a nurse for stealing drugs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-692563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}